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Pooja Bhatt's Bad lives up to its name

24 Jul, 2013 - 03:56 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team | 72 Reads

MUMBAI: Filmmaker and actress Pooja Bhatt's film Bad, currently being shot in Rajasthan, has been facing a lot of trouble coming its way. The film is perhaps living up to its name, with the National Students Union of India (NSUI) activists disrupting the shooting at the central jail on 23 July.

She expressed her anger in a tweet saying, "50-75 ppl (sic) claiming to be from NSUI have barged into Central Jail Udaipur shouting slogans against me threatening to shut down my shoot."

"If I were alone I would tackle them HEADON! But I happen to have a unit of 100. I am responsible for equipment as well," says another tweet from the filmmaker.

The protestors, who were demanding that the shooting be shut down, alleged the private security guards of Pooja Bhatt hit them when they were protesting. They gave a complaint to Surajpole police station, which is being examined.

The NSUI leader Deepak Mewada, who led the protest, said they were upset with Bhatt's behavior with Udaipur superintendent of Police, Hariprasad Sharma, who had allegedly misbehaved with the film's crew on Saturday (20 July). Sharma denied the charges.

The shooting resumed after the Saturday tiff was resolved by District Magistrate Vikas Bhale, who also reportedly appears in the film. Bhale, on his part, said he wanted the shooting to go on because it was good for tourism in the city.

However, with student body elections scheduled in August, it seems the NSUI had its eyes on its own constituency rather than the crew of the Randeep Hooda starrer film.